Lets see...expanding highways is expensive...good thing it is paid for with fuel taxes.
Building high speed rail is expensive....and in Europe, that is also paid for with fuel taxes.
I always chuckle when people talk about how great high speed rail would be...to me its not unlike saying ‘private helicopter ownership is great’. Helicopters are fast, and it would be great to own one to get around town...but its ridiculous to even talk about, because its so impractical.
Rail works well in dense urban areas...not so much elsewhere...unless heavily subsidized...period.
Lets see...expanding highways is expensive...good thing it is paid for with fuel taxes.
Not true. Lawmakers don't increase fuel tax or tolls to keep up with the rising costs of highway maintenance.
So user fees barely pay for half of our highway budgets. Highways are being subsidized by other funds.